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09 Nov

Conference: European Biomass to Power

Wednesday 09 Nov 2022 | ACIEU
ACI’s 11th European Biomass to Power Summit in November, 2022. The two-day event will bring together key industry stakeholders from the biomass industry: feedstock suppliers, biomass plant operators, end-product manufacturers, as well as technology providers – for two days of informative presentations, interactive discussion & excellent networking opportunities. Following the success of our previous conference in Manchester, UK, we are delighted to [...]

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08 Nov

Energy Seminar – week 5: What are the most important decisions to enable smart local energy systems?

Dr Jeff Hardy - speaking in person

Seminar | Week 5 | Tuesday 08 Nov 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
The UK does not have the appropriate policy, institutional and regulatory framework to realise the technical, economic, and societal potential of SLES. This report is a summary of the findings from a series of workshops that aimed to understand what decisions are needed to implement smart local energy systems (SLES). The work was led by the Grantham Institute at Imperial [...]

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Seminar | Week 5
01 Nov

Energy Seminar – week 4: Title: Climate, Energy and Affordable Housing Solutions: new buildings and retrofits.

Jonathan F.P. Rose - speaking in person

Seminar | Week 4 | Tuesday 01 Nov 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
Jonathan F.P. Rose, a leader of the green building movement in the United States will present his work bringing energy and climate reducing strategies to affordable housing in the USA. Jonathan’s firm received global recognition for its model green affordable housing project, Via Verde, developed in 2012 in New York City’s South Bronx. The project became a model for green affordable/ [...]

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Seminar | Week 4
25 Oct

Energy Seminar – week 3: Functional materials for energy efficient devices – From smart windows to computing devices

Harish Bhaskaran - speaking in person

Seminar | Week 3 | Tuesday 25 Oct 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
Summary: As our knowledge of materials at the nanoscale has grown, so has our knowledge of how to structure such devices at the nanoscale. After all, it is the two acting in concert – the material and the structure – that gives rise to functionality. The area of functional materials has a third knob – what happens if we can [...]

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Seminar | Week 3
21 Oct

ONE Annual Lecture – Environmental Governance for the Anthropocene: Promising New Directions or Dead End?

Professor Harriett Buckeley, University of Durham

Conference | Friday 21 Oct 2022 | Natural History Museum Oxford
Oxford Networks for the Environment Annual lecture 2022 and briefing event Keynote speaker:  Harriet Buckeley | Over the thirty years since global environmental issues rose to prominence on international science and policy agendas their governance has largely been undertaken under the paradigm of ecological modernism. Ecological modernism carries with it deeply held and often implicit assumptions which are bound up [...]

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Conference
18 Oct

Energy Seminar – week 2: MSc Energy Systems Alumni Presentations

Zie Chua and Eflamm Gueguen - see below for speakers slides

Seminar | Week 2 | Tuesday 18 Oct 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room
Speaker: Zie Chua will speak about ‘Behavioral Heterogeneity in the EV and V2G Markets’.  PowerPoint Slides –  Oxford Energy Seminar Chua 18 October 2022 – Zie Chua.  Summary: The lack of clear insights into vehicle consumer demand precludes effective public policies and disincentivises industry investments into electrification. By recognising the behavioural heterogeneity of consumers, our work applies Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) [...]

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Seminar | Week 2
11 Oct

Energy Seminar – week 1: Consumers, citizens or carbon-saving champions? Individuals and their place in net zero energy policy.

Tina Fawcett - speaking in person

Seminar | Week 1 | Tuesday 11 Oct 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
Update:  Tina Fawcett will be joined by co-speaker Yael Parag Cohen  (Visiting Academic) with a slight adjustment to the focus of the talk to: ‘Changing roles for individuals and organisations in the net zero transition.  Policy and Governance perspectives. Summary: Responding to the climate emergency is a UK priority, however, the role for individuals is unclear – must they be active [...]

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Seminar | Week 1
07 Sep

CREDS in Conversation series: Realistically Radical Policy Options.

Wednesday 07 Sep 2022 | Online
CREDS is delighted to invite you to their international CREDS in Conversation series: Realistically Radical Policy Options online webinar. This will take place on Wednesday, 7th September, 10h00-11h30 (BST). Further details will be sent to you on registration. Equitably and quickly distributing the world’s limited and fast-shrinking global carbon budget is one of the critical challenges of our time. This question [...]

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14 Jul

Sustainability Cafe: Retro Fit

Thursday 14 Jul 2022 | Flo's Community Benefit Society & SEH
Come and meet up with other purpose driven businesses to share ideas, inspiration and learning around the theme of sustainability. Aspire will share the emerging findings from their feasibility study into realising an inclusive, community-led approach to retrofitting residential properties in Oxfordshire, as an integral part of achieving a wider, inclusive transition towards a zero carbon way of living in the [...]

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